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Summit Park helicopter pilot dies while fighting Dome Fire near Yosemite
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On Sunday, helicopter pilot and Summit Park resident Ryan Cutter was killed along with co-pilot Greg King while conducting water drops on the 3,700-acre Dome Fire east of Yosemite National Park in California.
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Pilots killed in Yosemite Dome Fire helicopter crash identified
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Summit Park helicopter pilot dies while fighting Dome Fire near Yosemite
By Cecilio Padilla Two helicopter crew members were killed Sunday when their aircraft crashed during firefighting operations in Mariposa County. The helicopter went down shortly before 3 p.m. near Mariposa with two people aboard, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA says a helicopter assisting firefighting efforts on the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park crashed in Mariposa County on Sunday. At least two people were on board.
A helicopter assisting in the firefighting response to the 'Dome Fire' in Yosemite crashed Sunday afternoon, killing the two people on board, according to federal officials.
Two Precision employees were killed when a helicopter crashed during firefighting operations against the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park on Sunday.
By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Two members of a helicopter crew battling a wildfire in Yosemite National Park were killed when their aircraft crashed Sunday, according to the US Forest Service. Flyprecision, an aviation company contracted to the Forest Service, posted online Sunday that two members o…
Two helicopter pilots were killed when their aircraft crashed Sunday afternoon while conducting water drops on a wildfire at Yosemite National Park, officials say. The pilots were the only people on board, and were employed by the contract aircraft company Precision.
Two Precision employees were killed when a helicopter crashed during firefighting operations against the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park on Sunday.
A helicopter assisting in fighting the Dome fire in Yosemite national park crashed on Sunday afternoon Two helicopter pilots died while fighting a fire in Yosemite national park on Sunday afternoon. The pilots were conducting water drops over the Dome fire, which had burned more than 3,000 acres sin…
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Monday that two people died while fighting fires in California’s Yosemite National Park after their helicopter crashed in Mariposa County. The two died Sunday afternoon while battling the Dome fire, which started last Tuesday near Wawona Dome inside Yose…
One of the two people killed in a helicopter crash while fighting the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park has been identified as Greg King, an experienced Alaskan wildland firefighter and Fly Precision pilot.
Two pilots who were helping to battle the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park were killed on Sunday when their helicopter crashed. "A type 1 helicopter that was doing bucket work in support of suppression operations on the Dome Fire, went down and crashed," said Benjamin Cossel, public information o…
Two crew members were killed when a Eurocopter AS32 crashed during the Dome Fire response in Yosemite National Park, as investigators prepared to examine the disaster and firefighters continued confronting a blaze reported at 15% containment.
A special ceremony was held in Mariposa on Monday to honor two pilots who were killed when their Super Puma helicopter crashed while fighting the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park.
The two pilots killed when a firefighting helicopter crashed while battling the Dome Fire in Yosemite National Park have been identified as Greg King and Ryan Cutter, according to their employer.
Two people working on a contract for the U.S. Forest Service died on Sunday when their helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in Yosemite National Park, officials said.
